diff --git a/src/sat.sh b/src/sat.sh
index 33f75dfc..933110ec 100755
--- a/src/sat.sh
+++ b/src/sat.sh
@@ -26,6 +26,10 @@ from sat.memory.memory import fixLocalDir
 from ConfigParser import SafeConfigParser
 from os.path import expanduser, join
 import sys
+import codecs
+import locale
+
+sys.stdout = codecs.getwriter(locale.getpreferredencoding())(sys.stdout)
 
 fixLocalDir()  # XXX: tmp update code, will be removed in the future
 
@@ -41,11 +45,12 @@ env=[]
 env.append("PID_DIR='%s'" % join(expanduser(config.get('DEFAULT', 'pid_dir')),''))
 env.append("LOG_DIR='%s'" % join(expanduser(config.get('DEFAULT', 'log_dir')),''))
 
+env.append("APP_NAME='%s'" % C.APP_NAME)
 env.append("APP_NAME_FILE='%s'" % C.APP_NAME_FILE)
 print ";".join(env)
 PYTHONEND
 `
-APP_NAME="Salut à Toi"  # FIXME: the import from Python constants fails because of the à
+APP_NAME="$APP_NAME"
 PID_FILE="$PID_DIR$APP_NAME_FILE.pid"
 LOG_FILE="$LOG_DIR$APP_NAME_FILE.log"